2017 marks the centenary of Maeve Brennan’s birth. A daughter of the Rising, Maeve grew up in the Dublin suburb of Ranelagh, before moving to the US in 1934. In 1949 she became a staff writer for The New Yorker and wrote Talk of the Town columns as the Long-Winded Lady.

Following a sell-out event at Ranelagh Arts Centre and performances in NYC and Chicago earlier this year, the Emilie Conway Quartet is delighted to be joined again by actress Cathy Belton, and Angela Bourke to explore the soundscape of Maeve’s life and work in readings, spoken word, and music that ranges from traditional Irish to jazz, echoing how Maeve would have experienced the move from post-civil war Ireland to the glamour of cosmopolitan New York in the 1950s. Indeed Maeve’s columns for The New Yorker read like jazz: their cleverness, lightness and incisiveness show the dexterity of a master improviser which belie a deeper, Rembrandt-like meditation on the human condition - so hauntingly audible in the ballad-like quality of her short stories and her novella.

EARLY SHOW DOORS 7:30PM ONSTAGE 8:30PM Saturday 30th. September 2017
TICKETS: LIMITED QUANTITY EARLY BIRD AT €17.50 / STANDARD ONLINE €22 / ON THE DOOR €25
Dublin’s CEO Experiment and acclaimed saxophonist Michael Buckley will join forces with one of the most unique voices in the contemporary Jazz world; Kurt Rosenwinkel, for a one-off performance at The Sugar Club, Dublin on Saturday 30th September. A guitarist who has evolved the language jazz guitar in a way no other has before him, Rosenwinkel is internationally recognised as “one of the most important jazz guitarists in the game for the last quarter-century” (Ron Hart, The Observer)

Members of CEO Experiment will be guesting on Jazz Mine No. 123 Saturday 9th. September 2017 & will bring us up to speed in respect of conceryt detailed above at The Sugar Club. Recorded music from Kurt Rosenwinkel, CEO Experiment plus a track from Edel Meade debut album & something from both Nigel Mooney & Emilie Conway .